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Schemas and types for JSON data: From theory to practice

  • Mohamed Amine Baazizi
  • , Giorgio Ghelli
  • , Dario Colazzo
  • , Carlo Sartiani

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Abstract

The last few years have seen the fast and ubiquitous diffusion of JSON as one of the most widely used formats for publishing and interchanging data, as it combines the flexibility of semistructured data models with well-known data structures like records and arrays. The user willing to effectively manage JSON data collections can rely on several schema languages, like JSON Schema, JSound, and Joi, as well as on the type abstractions offered by modern programming and scripting languages like Swift or TypeScript. The main aim of this tutorial is to provide the audience (both researchers and practitioners) with the basic notions for enjoying all the benefits that schema and types can offer while processing and manipulating JSON data. This tutorial focuses on four main aspects of the relation between JSON and schemas: (1) we survey existing schema language proposals and discuss their prominent features; (2) we analyze tools that can infer schemas from data, or that exploit schema information for improving data parsing and management; and (3) we discuss some open research challenges and opportunities related to JSON data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGMOD 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Management of Data
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2060-2063
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356435
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2019 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 30 Jun 20195 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
ISSN (Print)0730-8078

Conference

Conference2019 International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2019
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period30/06/195/07/19

Keywords

  • JSON
  • Parsing
  • Schema inference
  • Schema libraries
  • Schemas

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